Tug-buckle.



N. P. PETERSEN.

TUG BUCKLE.

APPLIOATION- FILED APR. '1. 101 0.

4 Patented Jan. 17,1911.

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WITNESS-ES:

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NIELS P. PETERSEN, QF HERMAN TOWNSHIP, WASHINGTON COUNTY, NEBRASKA.

TUG-BUGKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 17, 1911.

Application filed April 7, 1910. Serial No. 553,343.

citizen of the United States of America. residing in llerman township, in the county of \Vashington and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in 'Iug-Buckles. of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in tug-lntckles having a removable tongueto support a stud-tongue a strap-way through a body bent from a sheet-metal blank: and the objects of my improvenn-nt are. first, to construct from a single piece of sheet-metal a buckle-body forming a strap-way and having integral legs and ears to carry chapc-bolts for attachment to hame-t'ug, back straps and bellybands: second. to shape a sheetmetal blank that can be bent to form such an integral body: and third, to provide means whereby the removable tongue-plate will couple and lock together the opposite edges of the bent body around the strap-way and support. the thin sheet-metal against the draft of the belly and back-bands. I attain these objects, with others of minor importance hereinafter more particularly set forth, by mechanism illustrated by the accompanying drawings in which similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout all the views, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the complete assembled buckle alone, its application to tug and hame-tug indicated by dotted lines; Fig. 2, a central longitudinal section through the buckle, tug and hamc-tug assemblcd and buckled; Fig. 3, an edge elevation of the tongue-plate removed from the buckle body; Fig. 4, a real-end view of the tongue-plate; Fig. 5, alengthwise section through the locking hooks at the rear end of body and tongue-plate on the broken lines 0 and l) of Figs. 1 and 4; and, Fig. (i, a

view of the flat sheet-metal blank before it bent. to form the strap-way and chape twill-supportingears.

()n' the view of the sheet-metal blank the solid lines 2 and 2 are where the metal is cut through to free thosides and rounded outercud edges of the forward chape-bolt ears 3 and I The. dotted lines 4, 4C, 4 and 1 indiate where the metal is bent at the'base of the ears 3, 3 and 5, 5, to stand said cars at right angles to the integral supporting sides 6 and (3 of the body and strap-way as shown t l t in Fig. 1. The transverse dotted lines 7, T, T

and 7. indicate where the metal sheet. is bent at right angles to form the longfi-lidinal angles and inside corners of the buckle-body across "its opposite longitudinal edges.

chape-bolt cars 5 and 5 are round-ended and incloscd strap-way. The central por- 5 tion 8 forms the connecting fiat back of the bod and strap-way: the adjoining narrow portions (3 and centrally and longitudinally alined with the ear portions 3 and 5 and with-the perforations 9, 9 etc. in their rounded ends, form the edge-sides of the buckle and strapway: and the'outer palrallel narrower edge portions 10 and 10 form the opposed face flanges of the body that overlap the face of the tongue-plate along The rear rearward extensions on the rear ends of the. side portions 6, (3 of the blank, and smaller rectangular extensions 11 and 11 at the rear ends of the flange portionsthe rear corners of the body blank-are adapted to be bent inwardly to form hooks to engage the notches 12 and 12 in the rear end of the tongue-plate 1?).- The side portionsti and 6 are extended forward beyond the forward edge of the blank body to form the integral chape-bolt legs 1t and 1+: their extended ends are rounded as shown and provided with 1.)erforat-i0ns l5 and 15 to receive the chape-bolt 1G by which the forward end of the buckle is fastened in the rear-end loop of the hame-tug 17. These legs are'inclined edgewise in the blank. "couvcrgently toward each otheat their projecting ends, so that when the blank is bent to form the body, as shown in Fig. 1, they support the halite-tug loo-p 'on the connecting chape-boltsufficiently out of alinement to allow tlie'tug 18 with the seated tongue 19 and tongue-plate to pass into and out of the forward. end of the strap-way.

The tongue-plate '13 is a flat rectangular sheet having on its forward end the out wardly standing lip or flange 20 to shield, and to engage the forward end of the face flanges to support the tongue against the draft on the tug. The notches 12 in the rear end of the tongue-plate are disposed and shaped to receive the inwardly-benthooksfrbm each other whereby the rear end of the body would be distorted; and, as they are inclined under theend of the tongue-plate I they prevent the inner rear angles 'of said flanges from being accidentally bent out- .wardly therefrom. The stud-tongue I have shown as a separate part shouldered and riveted-through the plate, there being ample space for a full strong head 21 between the opposed edges of the face flanges; but, it is obvious that said tongue-and plate may be made integral; possibly with advantage.

The. openings 22 from which the ears 3, 3 are struck outward serve to drain and ventilate the strap-way so that in case of wetting by storms or otherwise it soon dries out and the tug does notr'emain soaked and be come softened around the tongue to be stretched and weakened. v

The chape-bolts 23 and 23 have ends ,threaded through the ears 5, 5 and carry protecting sleeves 24: disposed between said ears and ears 3.. And the chape-bolt 16 is seated in like mannerin the perforations at the ends of its supportinglegs' and carries therebetween a like sleeve 25 to engaged loop of the hame-tug.

I claim:

r 1. A, harness buckle, comprising a sheetprotect the metal body bent to form a strap-way, integral partly severed side'port'ions and rearward extensions bent outward and perforated to form ears, chape-bolts disposedthrough said ears to carry back and belly bands, integral forwardly-inclined perforated extensions, a chape-bolt disposed through said. forward extensions to engage a hanie-tug, and a flanged plate having a fixed stud-tongue and adapted to be removably seated in said strapwayiwith its flange seated against the forward end of said body to support said tongue across said strapway.

52. A. harness buckle, comprising a body of sheet metal bent to a tube-shape to form a strap-way, integral inclined ears at the forward end of said body to carry a harnetug chape-bolt out of alinement with said diate partly severed portion and a corresponding extension on one edge of said sheet both adapted to be bent outwardly at rightangles to form a pair'of ears to support a laterally disposedchape-bolt and a pair of reversely inclined extensions on the edge opposite to said ear extension disposed to form a pair of ears to support an attaching chapebolt out of alinement with said strap- Way at onefend of the completed buckle-- body. 1

4:. A sheet-metal blank for a tubular-strap- Way buckle-body, comprising a rectangularsheet adapted to be bentto form a base and sides and h'aving at one edge a pair of convergently inclined extensions outstanding from the side-forming portions to form opposed ears to support therebetween a chapebolt at one end of said strap-way and out of alinement therewith.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

NIELS P. PETERSEN. Witnesses PAUL PETEREON, J. E. Low. 

